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It’s cold, but there will no white Christmas this year

With early-morning temperatures in the mid-20s, it certainly feels like Christmas in Tallahassee.

Sadly, despite regular drops in temperature around this time of year, it hasn’t looked like Christmas since 1989.

That was the last time there was measurable snow on Christmas Day in the city, said Katie Moore, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Tallahassee. About an inch of snow had fallen between Dec. 22 and Dec. 23 that year, with trace amounts of snow falling on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day.

“Most of the stuff on the ground was from the previous days,” she said. “We did have some light flurries on Christmas Day though.”

There haven’t been any instances of snow on Christmas since the 1989 holiday, Moore said. Typically there are cold fronts that come through during this time of year, though the city tends to warm up quickly. Today’s lows, which are in the mid-20s, are colder than usual, but not abnormal.

“It’s a little cooler than normal,” she said. “Normal lows would be around 40 degrees, but it’s not unheard of for freezes to happen around this time of year.”

The high for today is 59 degrees, and Moore said it should remain windy throughout the day.